Hot Trailer: ‘The Wolverine’

A new trailer for Fox‘s summer X-Men standalone adventure The Wolverine has hit the web, with more of a peek at villainess Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and the Japan-set plot. Hugh Jackman reprises his role as the Marvel superhero Wolverine as James Mangold directs the postconverted 3D pic, which opens internationally July 24 ahead of a stateside July 26 bow. Check it out:

11 Comments

That was a much better trailer than the one I saw four weeks ago in the theater.

Frank • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

Great trailer but they need to do another pass on Silver Samurai; it just looked (too) fake.

Jo • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

This is a different kind of superhero tale – the locale is exotic, it spans several time zones, and Wolverine is as badass as before!

Can’t wait!

dof • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

I’ll never see another Hugh Jackman movie again after he, Tom Cruise and others showed up at a Wal-Mart shareholders meeting. Cruise’s disgusting quote:

“I’ve wanted to come here for quite some time, actually,” the actor said, “because the culture you have here is like no other. I truly admire your company. [It’s] a role model for how business can address some of the biggest issues facing our world.”

I’m not a proud liberal, but Hollywood can’t expect us to listen to No on Prop 8 and 5000 other causes, then turn a blind eye to Jackman’s horrible selling out. What a joke this guy is.

John W • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

Lighten up, Francis.

Herald Square • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

There IS a parallel between how Wal-Mart and Scientology in terms of how they treat their “associates” including the bribery allegations that Wal-Mart had to settle last year. “Associates.” That’s what you’re referred to when you work on the selling floor at a Macy’s too. You’re an integral part of the success of the politburo in the Kremlin is the hype.

Johnq • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

Not sure about this movie, but this is the best trailer I’ve seen so far for it. Interested now.

I still think the blonde turns out to be Jean Grey when she tears that exterior face off. Revealing Dark Phoenix.

Mark Kelley • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

What’s great about the superhero movies, what’s best about them in my opinion, is that the fantastical construction of them, the fantastical implementation of ideas and characters, can in alternate terms be subversive allegories of current events. Did anyone not sense what James Clapper and the N.S.A. have been up to? Superhero movies, when they know what they’re doing, investigate such themes of consciousness. The phenomenon of superhero movies (I think) is totally attributable to a widespread lack of confidence in institutions and governments hence their worldwide appeal not unlike when superhero characters emerged during World War II. Like today they sated feelings of collective existential helplessness (although not in the movies so much yet.) In terms of their qualities of purposeful narrative abstraction, when they’re truly great, superhero movies are as valid as any excellent classical allegorical legend, tale, poem. The directors have to work hard at telling story for novices though. Not doing so could conceivably hurt long range plans for flow-through as DVD consumer products (or any other unforeseen new exhibition developments that may be around the bend.) Although it hasn’t been a great period generally for budding Marlon Brandos and Katharine Hepburns we may look back upon this period of movies as the Golden Era of Below-the-Line. This looks good. Look forward to checking it out.

Bob the Builder • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

Whoever is doing the soundtracks for these trailers is borrowing from a rather shallow library. They all seem to reference the blaring deep bass notes of INCEPTION and other recent fantasy films. Less than 10 seconds into the trailer, I felt I had already seen it before because of the familiarity of the track.

John W • on Jun 12, 2013 6:11 pm

When comic books become movies, what good is the comic book then? It has morphed into reality and therefore is no longer relevant as a medium.